Victoria, May 28, 2009 – NetApp, a California-based data storage provider, is planning on expanding its Melbourne office. According to the company, this move will add “at least” 68 new jobs to Victoria’s information and communications technology sector.

NetApp Vice President for Australia and New Zealand Peter O’Connor said that the decision to expand its Melbourne office was easy. ”There are many opportunities for our business across Australia and South-East Asia and a significant portion of these will come out of Melbourne,” he says.

The company employs more than 8,000 people with revenues of US$3.4 billion. It also has offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and Perth.

The expansion comes at an opportune time with Australia’s jobless ration on the rise. Victoria is among the hardest hit areas with a decline in export demand. Premier John Brumby said that NetApps expansion is ”a vote of confidence in the Victorian economy at a time when economies around the world were being affected by the global financial crisis.”

Source:
business.theage.com.au